German Chancellor Angela Merkel has started her tour of North Africa where she is set to discuss migration and development in the region. Activists have called on her to also address human rights abuses. As part of her push to… Read More ›

The dominant assessment in NATO is clear: Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan staged the coup against himself. By Kjetil Stormark / kjetil@aldrimer.no Senior NATO sources tell aldrimer.no that they believe Erdoğan staged the coup himself. However, they stress that there… Read More ›

Fleeing over the border in their VW camper van the Griesbach family told Vladimir Putin’s Government they had escaped the ‘German dictatorship’ where they could no longer raise their children. Carola Griesbach, 51, and her husband Andre, 45, raced… Read More ›

JUBA, South Sudan — South Sudanese government soldiers raped dozens of ethnic Nuer women and girls last week just outside a United Nations camp where they had sought protection from renewed fighting, and at least two died from their injuries,… Read More ›

China has robustly denied the accusations leveled online and in Zambian media In the media reports, an unnamed Zambian woman living in China reportedly issued warnings to Africans not to eat corned beef. She claimed that dead human bodies were… Read More ›

Eni says after full development, the discovery will be able to ensure satisfying Egypt’s natural gas demands ‘for decades.’ The Italian energy company Eni SpA announced Sunday it has discovered a “supergiant” natural gas field off Egypt, describing it as… Read More ›

There’s a difference between ‘right-to-work’, which limits agreements between workers’ unions and employers, and First Amendment restrictions on government in matters of religion, speech, expression, association and so on. For conservatives, though, rights are rolled up into one, giant “freedom”… Read More ›